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Screening Pigments: General Questions

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Photoprotection in Plants

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Biophysics ((BIOPHYSICS,volume 14))

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The chapter begins with the issue of the specificity of the photoprotective function served by different compounds absorbing in visible and UV parts of the spectrum and important reservations that should be made before associating the function of radiation screening with a plant pigment. Current hypotheses of the evolution of optical screening mechanisms and screening compounds in microalgae and higher plants are discussed. The chapter concludes with an overview of the most important classes of plant screening pigments, a brief account of their diversity, natural occurrence, and spectral properties in vitro.

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Solovchenko, A. (2010). Screening Pigments: General Questions. In: Photoprotection in Plants. Springer Series in Biophysics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13887-4_2

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